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Caritas Australia

Planning is underway to form a Caritas Australia Youth Sub-Committee which will be tasked with encouraging more young people to be involved with the work of the Catholic agency for international aid and development.

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Caritas Australia has been working with partners on the ground to respond to the impact of a recent 7.5 magnitude earthquake in Papua New Guinea which killed 150 people and left 270,000 people including 125,000 children, in need of emergency aid.

Each year Caritas Australia’s Project Compassion, which runs through the six weeks of Lent, brings together communities across Australia, in solidarity with the world’s poor, to help end poverty, promote justice and uphold dignity. Each week The Southern Cross will publish a story on how Project Compassion is making a different to the lives of individuals, their families and communities.